nerve cell
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cell of the nervous system which conducts nerve impulses; a neuron.
Example Sentences
- "The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure."